Germany Muzzles SCO 349
skyryder12 writes " We have news from Germany. It seems, according to Computerworld, that SCO Group GmbH (SCO's German branch) agreed, on February 18, 2004, to an out-of-court settlement between it and Univention and will refrain from saying in Germany some things it says in the US constantly. There are four things they have agreed not to say in Germany, on pain of a fine of 10,000 euros per offense -- that's about $12,500 USD -- and one thing they can't say unless they present proof within a month of the settlement date. Story at GrokLaw"
Good ol' Germans! (Score:5, Funny)
Dast ist Fantastichen (Score:1, Funny)
Germany has a sense of humor (Score:5, Funny)
Cat Got My Tongue (Score:5, Funny)
4) Finally SCO Group GmbH is prohibited to threaten to sue Linux users unless they bought SCO Linux or Caldera Linux.
Hello, Darl? This is irony calling.
Re:Good to see... (Score:1, Funny)
Hopefully soon to be replaced with
echo any_sco_rant_*.txt >
Re:Good ol' Germans! (Score:4, Funny)
Germans... (Score:4, Funny)
Seems like they are doing pretty good (At least recently...and they have a powerful Green Party!)
The Germans once again have right idea (Score:2, Funny)
The Germans tried to do this during the 1930s and 1940s, but those blasted Yanks would not let them.
Re:Cat Got My Tongue (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I'd like to take an iron to Darl too...
sue their own customers (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a cool twisted ploy to make them lose their two remaining german customers.
- cnb
*forehead slap* (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Germany has a sense of humor (Score:5, Funny)
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The court of judge subjectstorm (Score:5, Funny)
JS: mmm . .
person: judge storm? shouldn't we correct them?
JS: no . . no, i'm going to allow this one.
person: but-
JS: SILENCE! my position is unassailable. now bring me a goblet of cheese and all 25 episodes of "Berserk". i need to do some thinking on more important matters . . . such as how that CAN'T be the LAST episode, can it?!?!? Griffith, you BASTARD!!!
Re:Good to see... (Score:5, Funny)
Then I have some marvellous snake oil for you, which will cure every known disease. I can let you have some very cheap.
Additional banned words.. (Score:3, Funny)
D*ryl McBr*de
Ly*ng Scumf*cks
S*mpr*ni
Re:Good ol' Germans! (Score:1, Funny)
So would the Americans, I imagine. Hence the racism. The OP just said that 270 million people had the Lawyer Gene - is a worse slur possible?
German to English? (Score:5, Funny)
"Die SCO Group"
When I started to read the German news report, I didn't go into German mode, and was throughly entertained to read that a news organization was saying to SCO "Die." But it was just saying "The SCO..." Oh well.
Dear SCO (Score:5, Funny)
You're null unt void.
Signed,
Germany
You learn something every day... (Score:4, Funny)
Somewhere in Utah: (Score:0, Funny)
You gotta love german (Score:5, Funny)
Die SCO Group...
has got to be good!
Re:Finally (Score:5, Funny)
"Germany Nuzzles SCO"
I think it's time I went home.
Tom.
Re:Additional banned words.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How does it come? (Score:3, Funny)
> of my knowledge, all countries have more than
> two parties. There is no lack of choice for
> voting someone else into office, if the current
> lot does a bad job.
The USA also has more than 2 parties, people are just too scared to vote their conscience.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."
"So", said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them", said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes", said Ford with a shrug, "of course".
"But", said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in." - Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish, chapter 36, 1984
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles. [unmasks them]
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away.
[Kang and Kodos laugh out loud]
[later] Marge: I don't understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I never even heard of.
Homer: Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. - The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror VII
"It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." - Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926)
thought experiment... (Score:5, Funny)
Rule 2) The settlement also forbids SCO from claiming that if end users are running Linux they might be liable for breaches of SCO's intellectual property.
Rule 3) Also they cannot say that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix.
Rule 4) Finally SCO Group GmbH is prohibited to threaten to sue Linux users unless they bought SCO Linux or Caldera Linux.
Fact 1: SCO Group GmbH get's fined EUR 10,000 if they break Rules 1 through 4.
Fact 2: Darl mcwhatever is CEO of SCO.
Theorem 1: SCO Group GmbH is a branch of SCO group and falls directly under SCO group.
extrapolation 1: If Theorem 1 holds then Darl mcwhatever is part of SCO Group GmbH.
Conclusion: If extrapolation 1 holds then SCO Group GmbH gets fined EUR 10.000 everytime Darl mcwhatever says or does anything covered by rules 1 through 4.
Does this mean that every SCO press release now costs them an additional EUR 10.000?
What about the sco.com website? is that a repeat offense every time someone presses refresh?
Re:Good to see... (Score:2, Funny)
I have some marvellous snake oil for you, which will cure every known disease. You have already been using it as a part of your daily medicines. No, I will not tell you what it is.
Give me $700 or I will sue you.